Bruise Cruise Pre-PartyWith Black Lips, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Vivian Girls, Thee Oh Sees, the Strange Boys, Surfer Blood, Ty Segall Turbo Fruits, and Jacuzzi BoysGrand Central, MiamiThursday, February 24, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better Than: Seven hours of watching the Home Shopping Network.There was a melee…
Cruises are a strange glue. They bring together retirees, teenagers, and 20-somethings looking to take advantage of the 24-hour buffet and free-flowing booze, and the Bruise Cruise will be no different. Setting sail today for a three-day party in the Bahamas, this maiden voyage of Rock n’ Roll proportions is…
Paleface is one of the great heroes — not unsung, but perhaps undersung — of the ’90s East Coast folk(-ish) revival whose influence would eventually spur on bigger marquee stars in the early ’00s, like Kimya Dawson and Regina Spektor. (Actually, fun fact: Way before all that, Paleface even shared…
At the beginning of yet another headlining tour, the guys of Underoath unwittingly find themselves elder statesmen of the particular branch of post-hardcore they helped create. Playing in support of the band’s seventh studio album, last year’s Ø (Disambiguation), the six-piece enjoys the unlikely honor of having musical predecessors Thursday…
Earlier this year, West Palm’s representative on this weekend’s Bruise Cruise (and tonight’s pre-party) Surfer Blood played a pair of concerts in South Florida to unveil some material not featured on the band’s debut, Astro Coast. The first, a hastily announced gig at Respectable Street, featured a trio of songs…
The Santa Cruz, California-based quartet the Expendables lives in a musical and mood world we would very much like to inhabit in real life, all the time. It’s one in which you never have to rush, nothing depressing ever happens, and the next laid-back, beer-soaked house party full of potential…
Based on the massive local crowds at Slightly Stoopid and Iration shows in the past year, it’s safe to say that there is a surfer-stoner party just waiting to break out at all times. Invite one of the fine descendants of Sublime, and let’s rage. Although the Expendables hail from…
Led by frontman Cameron Stiles’ Southern rock guitar strokes, Jupiter-based duo (and veritable Black Keys understudies) Filthy Animals can fill a room with down-home Dixie vibe. Even as a scrawny, suburban, 20-something, Stiles possesses the pipes of a husky veteran bluesman from the Mississippi Delta. Here’s a guy who hoots…
Keller Williams is the darling troubadour of the jam-band world. A fixture of ’90s Grateful Dead tours and Bonnaroo, he’s grown famous for his über-fun one-man-band performances. With multiple instruments and loop pedals at his disposal, his multilayered, improvised sets include funky originals, Dead and Phish songs, and less obvious…
Lake Worth quartet Luna Rex tears a page from Frank Zappa’s spoof-rock manual on its highly satirical and conceptually humorous debut EP, Glass Wave. With the record’s tales of rip-roaring road trips in a VW van, interstellar time machine romances, and odes to “happy little trees” painter Bob Ross, virtually…
As far as Puerto Rican boy bands with American crossover appeal go, Davila 666 easily beats out Menudo with its balls-out ability to rock, though there’s definitely some overlap in the wearing of leather jackets, chaps, and accessories. Offering both clean garage pop and raw rock ‘n’ roll, Davila 666’s…
While Miami’s been snagging many of the big dubstep bookings of late, here’s something to make the southernmost bass crews green. It’s Respectable Street that’s hosting the next South Florida appearance by producer/DJ titan Noah D. The Portland-based artist started sniffing around the low end in the early ’00s; first,…
Quintron and Miss Pussycat could be the sleeper act of this weekend’s Bruise Cruise Festival and its corresponding pre-party being held Thursday evening at Grand Central. Inevitably, soul-inspired tunes fueled by the mighty Hammond B-3 organ, the self-patented, light-activated Drum Buddy synth, and Miss Pussycat’s noted skills as a puppeteer…
Pittsburgh DJ Gregg Gillis AKA Girl Talk reclaimed public relevance earlier this year with the release of All Day. Sure, Gillis had been releasing EPs since 2002, but when servers crashed under the weight of people trying to stream the 12-track LP, people really started to take notice.It’s easy to…
Looks like Donald Trump wasn’t covered by Rihanna’s “Umbrella” this past Saturday for a benefit show at his club on Palm Beach Island. Mere hours before she was set to perform at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Club for the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute’s 20th Annual Discovery Celebration event, she called in sick. Reported in…
Mr. Jonathan “New York Night Train” Toubin’s DJ skills are world-renowned. Just ask the Wall Street Journal. And prior to his Soul Clap and Dance-Off set during this weekend’s Bruise Cruise proper, he’s spinning a mix of early ’60s soul for the mainlanders tonight at the Vagabond.For those who don’t…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Every picture tells a story… In last week’s column, I betrayed the fact that I am indeed quite the obsessive collector, owing to the fact that…
Before the infamous Bruise Cruise Festival launches from South Florida’s shores on Friday, there’s going to be a killer kickoff party at Miami’s Grand Central on Thursday evening. Limited tickets are still available here. Garage rockers and notorious meat-beating partiers the Black Lips should stoke the mood plenty with a…
Ozzy OsbourneWith SlashBankAtlantic Center, SunriseSunday, February 20, 2011Ozzy Osbourne has come a long way from being the devil-worshipping, suicide-inducing, bat-head-eating madman he was labeled as in the ’70s and ’80s. Over a decade spent on reality TV and advertisements is just enough time to erase the Ozzy’s satanic memories from…
Life is precious, folks. Love Justin Bieber or hate him, seeing him get gunned down in a police standoff is quite a spectacle. The producers of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation obviously knew this, and last night staged a dramatic end to the life of his troubled character, Jason McCann. Thanks…
The many pleasures of this coming Wednesday’s Artopia — New Times Broward-Palm Beach’s annual cultural celebration — are more numerous with the addition of prized alt-country/punk act Under Every Green Tree. Led by the sure-footed singer Danny Brunjes, our Glimpses of the South Florida Scene alum has a load of…
Might as well call Lavola “Alex Rendon got up close with Julian Cires, Matt Hanser, and Brian Weinthal recently to discuss the ferocity and contemplative nature of what they do onstage.Even if the band has more of an analog approach to music, this evening’s performance will likely have plenty of…
